How to bind form based actions like 'Save' to designated Java classes mentioned in xwork in Confluence

angela simmons Jul 08, 2012

Hi All,
I have made some significant progress in my customization efforst thanks to your help and looking forward to move forward similarly.
I have created the custom tab in the 'Advanced' tab and it now looks like this http://imageshack.us/f/809/newpageg.png/ . I have been able to add a text field as well as a 'Save' button. I actually followed the 'Edit Space Details' option and took two of its form elements to achieve the output.
This is how my VM looks now.

##requireResource("confluence.web.resources:space-admin")
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
   &lt;title&gt;Freeway Project Creation&lt;/title&gt;
   &lt;meta name="decorator" content="atl.general" /&gt;   
 &lt;/head&gt;

 &lt;content tag="key"&gt;$action.space.key&lt;/content&gt;

&lt;body&gt;    

#applyDecorator("root")
    #decoratorParam("helper" $action.helper)
    #decoratorParam("context" "space-administration")
    #decoratorParam("mode" "view-space-administration")

    #applyDecorator ("root")
        #decoratorParam ("context" "spaceadminpanel")
        #decoratorParam ("selection" "add-fpc-label-action-web-ui")
        #decoratorParam ("title" $action.getText("action.name"))
        #decoratorParam ("selectedTab" "admin")
        #decoratorParam("helper" $action.helper) 

       
       &lt;div &gt;
   			 &lt;table width="95%" border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5&gt;
			   &lt;form name="editspace" method="POST" &gt;
           
            #bodytag( "TextField" "label='space-name'" "name='name'" "size=40" )
            #param ("labelwidth" "100")
            #param ("tdcolor" "f0f0f0")
            #end
            
            &lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td colspan="2" align="center"&gt;
                    #tag( "Submit" "name='confirm'" "value='update.name'" "theme='notable'" )
                    #tag( "Submit" "name='cancel'" "value='cancel.name'" "theme='notable'" )
                &lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;

        &lt;/form&gt;
    &lt;/table&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
        
   
       
    #end
#end    
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;

I would like to understand how this interaction with my JAVA class will result in the output like. For eg: I will enter the name in the text box for name and hit save and on a resulting page it must display the name entered.

As of now my designated java class looks like this.

package com.atlassian.myorg;

import com.atlassian.confluence.core.ConfluenceActionSupport;
import com.atlassian.confluence.pages.AbstractPage;
import com.atlassian.confluence.pages.actions.PageAware;
import com.opensymphony.xwork.Action;

/**
 * The simplest action possible
 */
public class FreewayProjectAction extends ConfluenceActionSupport 
{
    @Override
    public String execute() throws Exception
    {
        return Action.SUCCESS;
    }

}

So I have 3 questions:

1. The 'Edit Space Details' shows the following URL 'http://localhost:1990/confluence/spaces/doeditspace.action?key=LBTEST' when i mouse over the 'Save' button. I am assuming that its governing Java class is EditSpaceDetails. So is the doEdit() method (see here http://imageshack.us/f/542/decompdoedit.png/)inside that class that swings into action when we try to save the edit action of the space ? Can i get to see the xml that has this mapping specifically for this edit space details action? Is my assumptin correct ?

2. In order to have such a functionality i have mentioned earlier i.e. displaying the name entered in my custom page as detailed above what will be the changes required in my Java class.

3. In the page i have just customised there is the text box and the label is 'Name' . Should i use a different xml so that i can provide my custom label like "Project Name" ?

Please do kindly advice me on the same.

Thanks
Angie

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